After a five-year-hiatus, Mark Grabowski and Jim Paslawski are returning to the restaurant at 329 Savannah Road in Lewes.

They left that spot, then The Blue Plate, in 2009 to focus on their other venture, Finbar’s Pub & Grille in Rehoboth Beach. Time passed and the couple sold Finbar’s to neighboring Dogfish Head in December.

Then they noticed their old building was for sale.

“We found out this opportunity was here so we came back to Lewes,” Paslawski said.

In June they purchased the property, then took the summer off to spend time with their 12-year-old. Sept. 15 they returned to the building and on Sept. 19 they were open for business under the name Honey’s Farm Fresh.

About a month later, when the couple went to take down the sign for the former JD’s Cafe, they realized the big blue “Blue Plate” never came down off the side of the building, it was simply covered up.

“It was kind of like a little omen, a little welcome back,” Grabowski said.

Right now the restaurant is open five days a week for breakfast and lunch. Once the weather starts to warm up they hope to expand that to seven days a week, including dinner service.

But for now they’re in a transitional phase, Paslawski said, and they will take the rest of the fall and winter to figure out what works best on their menu.

“We get to try all the recipes out, and if they’re not going well they come right off,” Paslawski said.

Recently he tried making a potato latke as a special — it was a hit and went onto the menu. Another special, caramel apple stuffed French toast, has been popular, he said.

Eventually he would like to incorporate a way for people at work to stop in quickly and grab a lunch to go. Items such as their kale salad with apples, walnuts and a yogurt based dressing, are popular at lunch time, he said, as well as their house roasted turkey, and curried chicken salad.

He plans on sourcing ingredients locally when possible, from orchards to bakeries.

“The focus is going to be on fresh, farm fresh, we’ll be working with a lot of local vendors,” he said.

There is also space for a garden out back to grow tomatoes and herbs, he said.